Tag: London Transit
City budget: Don’t expect fights for more cash from London Transit, library
The 2025 city budget update process is now underway. After the tense four-year (2024-27) budget discussions last winter where only London police walked away with everything they wanted â how are London’s other biggest agencies faring with what they got? Reporter Jack Moulton takes a look. LONDON PUBLIC LIBRARY During last winter’s multi-year budget talks, […]
Everything you need to know about London’s 2025 city budget plans
London’s 2025 budget update has now been released, promising a smaller than anticipated tax hike through cutting community grants and not funding new year-round shelter beds in the core. LFP’s Jack Moulton chats with several city politicians about what they like, what’s missing, and what will be talked about. WHAT’S ON THE TABLE Before budget […]
City politicians unfazed by police board’s $104K budget-pitch spending
A London city council effort to push city-funded agencies to not use taxpayer money for budget pitches has fallen flat. In a 10-5 vote on Tuesday evening, city politicians sitting as the strategic priorities and policy committee endorsed denying the push stemming from the controversy of the London police board spending $104,000 to help sell […]
City budget: Londoners’ 2025 property tax pain eased â a little bit
Londoners will face a slightly smaller property tax hike in 2025 than initially expected.
City budget: Politicians re-visiting 2024-27 spending as big tax hikes loom
Taxpayers, hang on to your wallets. Next week, city hall will kick off its 2025 budget update, tweaking and amending the 2024-27 budget passed this year by city council. While meant to be geared toward relatively small changes, it’s possible old fights could resurface. LFP’s Jack Moulton breaks down what to expect. WHAT IS DIFFERENT […]
Sentencing delayed for man who stabbed stranger in random Richmond Row attack
The sentencing hearing for a London man who pleaded guilty to a random attack on a stranger on Richmond Row has been delayed pending a potential order for a psychiatric assessment.Â
Western University workers ratify new deal, campus roads reopen
Striking blue-collar workers at Western University have ratified a new deal, effectively ending a six-week job action by the unionâs 330 members. Members of CUPE Local 2361 â the union that represents caretakers, landscapers and trade workers at the university â voted in favour of the deal at a meeting Friday morning, vice-president Chris Yates […]
Bus rapid transit: The very latest on construction, expected completion date
Reporter Jack Moulton takes a look at where things stand, and what comes next.
Tentative deal reached in Western University strike after six weeks
A tentative deal has been reached between Western University and the union representing caretakers, landscapers and trade workers, officials with both the union and the school say. CUPE Local 2361, the union representing 330 workers who have been on strike since Aug. 30, announced on Wednesday evening in an email that it had reached a […]
‘Nightmare’: Parents despair over ongoing repairs at area high school
The parents of a Grade 9 student at a London-area high school say he hasnât been going to classes for weeks in part over what his parents believe are unsafe conditions at the school.